Daniel Lerner's scientific contributions

... Scholars have also begun to lay out the case for a more integrative approach to the relationship with entrepreneurship, suggesting that rather than adopting a binary focus on the good or bad facets of psychiatric syndromes, it is more productive to consider specific phases and tasks of entrepreneurship that may be benefited or disadvantaged by specific psychiatric tendencies (e.g. Hatak et al., 2020;Lerner et al., 2018b). The seven-phase lifecycle approach to business venturing of Lerner and colleagues (2018b) suggests that the same high-energy, impulse-driven, zeal for novelty that can be an asset at the ideation and venture launch phases, can become a liability when a venture moves to a phase that requires attentiveness to details, replication, and diligent execution. ...

... This is the part where the strategic impulses are very important, though it is long debated, as Impulse-driven logics are notoriously difficult to identify, isolate and describe (Hunt and Lerner, 2017) and rational decision-making often result in an optimal response of inaction. But it is also undeniable that strategic impulses have given lots of benefits and have lots of business opportunities (Daniel Lerner and Dimo Dimov, 2016). Strategic impulses in the era of industry 4.0 are without any doubt a must to firm performance if the firm wants to survive and increase its performance. ...

... Building on emerging literature that seeks to address the boundaries of rational entrepreneurial action, to develop a complementary amendment to the top-down, deliberate logics perspective. The new theory offers several exciting pathways for future research and theory-building [2]. Since action based on incomplete knowledge and without the benefit of defined rules is necessary to advance under conditions of uncertainty, and considering individual time and resource constraints, would-be founders have little choice but to act somewhat more on impulse than other economic agents. ...

... suggest, will demand a clear articulation of what it means to engage in unreasoned action, a specification of its epistemological foundations, and a demarcation of whether unreasoned action is trait-based and ever-present (because of, for example, severe ADHD, see Lerner et al., 2018b) or alternatively more situational (where actors sometimes act disinhibited but other times are quite restrained, similar to the work on situational optimism in Wood, Bradley & Artz, 2015). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 ...

... A number of entrepreneurship studies have recently suggested the relevance of behavioral disinhibition (Lerner, 2016), of acting on impulse/impulsivity (Wiklund et al., 2016(Wiklund et al., , 2017b, and of related constructs such as ADHD (Lerner et al., 2018c;Thurik et al., 2016;Verheul et al., 2015Verheul et al., , 2016. Building on these, Lerner, Hunt and Dimov (2018a: 56) suggest suggest disinhibition is an important yet illusive "alternative logic [of] entrepreneurial action." ...